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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:16:03 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> On Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:42:23 PM Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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>> > I would estimate that the vast, vast, vast majority of users are those |
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>> > such as myslelf, who have no opinion whatsoever, and either will not be |
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>> > affected at all by these changes (because they don't separate / and |
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>> > /usr), or will simply apply the proposed initramfs solution and move |
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>> > on. |
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>> You also don't have /var (or /var/log) seperated? Or any of the other parts |
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>> of the filesystem that might be required by udev-rules? |
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> Speaking solely for myself, no. Years ago I routinely split /, /usr, and /var |
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> when setting up my FreeBSD systems, and found that it only ever caused |
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> problems when I could not get /usr or /var mounted when I needed them. |
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> At least since I switched to Gentoo, I've simply set up one partition with |
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> everything on it, and kept regular backups in case of failure. |
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> I clearly recognize that there are valid reasons to split your partitions, I |
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> have just never found any of them applicable to my situations. |
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> --Mike |
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My first response to this 300+ post thread, and only to say that in |
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something like 15 years of playing with & using Linux I've never split |
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/usr & no longer split /var. I also don't use LVM or anything fancy |
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like that. I just keep backups and use them if there's a failure. Life |
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is pretty simple. |
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My suspicion is that by far most casual desktop users of Linux, Gentoo |
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based or not, run pretty much this way and will be unaffected by this |
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whole change and as such have no reason to post. |
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As for the initrd stuff, I'd welcome a way to have one built |
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automatically as part of the kernel build/install. My experience with |
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software RAID has been such that I often cannot get a new RAID to boot |
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without it so having one that's up to date and 'just there' (@tm) |
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would be fairly cool from my POV. |
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My only & last post on this thread. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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